Stu Weibel writes:
> Jon,
>
> Delighted to see your note, and your concern is right on the mark. I'm
> uncertain as to the best way to go with this... and I'd be happy to see
> an open discussion about it.
The Syntax group at Warwick suggested that SCHEME and TYPE information
be encoded through the use of reserved delimeters.
<URL:http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/DC/syntax/warwick.html>. For
SCHEME it was suggested to ues '()' and for TYPE ':' example,
<META NAME="DC.author(email)" CONTENT="[log in to unmask]">
Take a look at
<URL:http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/publications/metadata/minimal.html>
for more complete (but still brief) example of using this syntax.
This construct overloads (even more) the NAME attribute which I
personally don't like. Name-space overload is somewhat problematic for
robots, and parsers, but it is 2.0 complient...
> III. Slip-in-a-SCHEME Kludge:
>
> <META NAME="DC.author SCHEME=e-mail CONTENT="[log in to unmask]">
>
> Rationale: It may not be strictly kosher HTML, but it won't really hurt,
> and it allows a cleaner implementation of SCHEME
This is the approach that I would eventually suggest and outlined in
an HTML metadata issues paper with DTD, etc.
<URL:http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric/publications/metadata/issues.html>.
This requires modification to the DTD for "complience" on parsers,
robots, and editors which is problematic. Moving anything through the
HTML working group right now takes a great degree of time and
patience.
These issues beg the question as to a set of valid SCHEMEs and TYPEs
for the DC and how to identify individual package types and local
extensions. These are still open ended issues that require a formal
registry framework. w.r.t local extensions, i'm using the IMT
unregistered 'X-' convention (e.g. intranet robots) but this is still
open for discussion. For example...
<META NAME = "DC.author(email)" CONTENT = "[log in to unmask]">
<META NAME = "DC.author(name)" CONTENT = "Eric J. Miller">
<META NAME = "X-LOCAL.department" CONTENT = "RSCH">
<META NAME = "X-LOCAL.mailcode" CONTENT = "410">
Suggestions?
eric j. miller <URL:http://purl.oclc.org/net/eric>
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